You can now see the file names inside a zipped file before you download it using FireFox, Archview lets you preview the files inside a zip or rar file and also allows you to download files from within an archive before completely finishing the download of the file.

As soon as you hit the download of any archive ( zip or rar ) file it fetches information about it and displays the contents almost instantly and presents the list files of the archive in an XUL or HTML interface.

Features:

What It Can Do

• Directly access archive files on Web or FTP server.
• List the catalog of archive file.
• Open or download an individual file.
• Support RAR and ZIP formats.
• Support HTTP, FTP and file: protocols.
• Can present HTML or XUL interface.
• Only fetch necessary data rather than the whole archive file.
• Work together with Firefox, easy to use.
• Platform independent, (theoretically) support all platforms that Firefox can run.

What It Can’t

• Can’t open SFX file.
• Does not support multi-volume archive.
• Can’t open encrypted file in ZIP.

Archview

Homepage — Download Compatible with Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0b4

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When visitors are referred to your site from a search engine, they are definitely looking for something specific, If they don’t find what they want they might leave immediately though your blog might have have what the visitor wants but not correctly directed by the search engine.

Landing Site, is a wordpress plugin that can help solve this problem by showing related posts based the visitors search keywords.

Follow the steps to implement the plugin in you wordpress installation.

Step 1. Download LandingSites plugin from here. [ Direct Download Link ]

Step 2. Upload the plugin and activate the plugin in your WP Blog.

Step 3. Add this code to your single.php file.

Find this code: <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> and

paste this code after the above line.

<?php if (function_exists(’ls_getinfo’)) : ?>
<?php if (ls_getinfo(’isref’)) { ?>
<div class=”landingsites”>
<h2><?php ls_getinfo(’terms’); ?></h2>
<p>You came here from <?php ls_getinfo(referrer); ?> searching for <i><?php ls_getinfo(terms); ?></i>. These posts might be of interest:</p>
<ul>
<?php ls_related(5, 10, ‘<li>’, ‘</li>’, ”, ”, false, false); ?>
</ul>

</div>
<?php } ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Step 4. Add this code to your Style.css file and modify it according to your needs.

.landingsites{
line-height: 15px;
border: 1px #ff9933;
border-style: double;
width: 350px;
margin: 12px 12px 12px 12px;
padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;
}

Just do a search of your blog and test your landing site plugin.

I have implemented the plugin on this blog and the plugin works with WP 2.5.1

Note : for this plugin to retreive related post you need to have Related Post Plugin Installed.
Download the Related Posts Plugin from here.

Mozilla Thunderbird, E-mail Client does not minimize itself to the system tray by default, it minimizes itself to the taskbar. Here’s a nifty little addon MinimizeToTray for Thunderbird that lets you minimize the E-Mail Client to the system tray and notify you when you receive a mail.

Features :

• Access menu on right on the tray icon from where you can check all mails, compose mails and view address book.
• Flexible Minimization Options : Send Firefox or Thunderbird to the tray by right-mouse clicking on the minimize button, or by choosing “File => Minimize to Tray” from the menu, or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+M from the keyboard. Change the extension options, to force the application to always minimize to the tray instead of the taskbar by selecting the checkbox inside the extension’s options, restore using a single or double click, or minimize the application on close.

Extension Options can be found at

Tools –> Add-Ons –> Select MinimizeToTray Addon , Press Options

How To Install MinimizeToTray

1. Download MinimizeToTray from here.
2. Navigate to Tools –> Add-Ons –> Press Install ( 2 in above image ) and browse to the downloaded xpi file.
3. Restart Thunderbird, Change options and you can now minimize Thunderbird to system tray.

Note : The same add-on also works with Mozilla FireFox in case you want to minimize FireFox also to tray.

MinimizeToTray - Homepage

Links they could be dangerous, malicious so here’s a nifty little FireFox Extension that will change the mouse cursor according to the target of the link the mouse pointer points to.It supports 25 types of links by default.

Though the target of the links is shown in the status bar not many notice the target link and click the links, this extension can be called more of like a warning about the link the user is about to access.You can also add any new file extension and assign a image for the file extension.

Link Alert indicates links to the following by default:
-New Windows
-Secure Sites
-Email Links
-JavaScript
-Word Documents
-Excel Spreadsheets
-PDF Files
-Zip Files
-Applications
-Text Files
-Images
-RSS Feeds
-AIM Links
-and more..

Link Alert is compatible with Firefox: 1.5 – 3.0pre

Link Alert

• Homepage
• Mozilla Addons

In the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop with the inclusion of Adobe Bridge the thumbnail view of PSD files within the windows explorer is no more present, This can be really difficult if you intent to see preview of the file you need to open the Adobe Bridge inorder to view the preview, which consumes a lot of RAM.

Another way is to restore the the thumbnail view for the PSD files within explorer.

Here’s how to restore thumbnails for PSD in explorer

The psd thumbnail view is not included by design in the lastest version of photoshop. To restore this feature follow these steps:
1. Download psicon.dll
2. Place the DLL in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\
3. Thumbnail previews of PSD files are now back

The psicon.dll can be downloaded from here.

NOTE : Do Backup Your Data, registry and create a restore point just in case anything goes wrong.

SitePoint is offering the PDF version of their book The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques for free. If you are a beginner to Photoshop then this be a great resource to get started with Photoshop.

Here’s a list of what will be taught in the ebook

• Basic skills needed for using PhotoShop.
• Creating Buttons.
• Creating BackGround.
• Adjusting and Manipulating Images.
• Designing a website.

Just head over here and enter your email id and the ebook download link will land in your inbox within a few minutes.

There are 2 versions of the ebook available for download

• A hi-resolution File Size: 64Mb and
• A low resolution with a File Size : 23MB

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